Severely punish cyber crimes and purify cyberspace
Editor's note: In today's era, the Internet has profoundly affected our daily lives.
Especially during the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the importance of the Internet in promoting economic development and ensuring social operations has become more prominent.
However, while the Internet is booming, it also brings some risks: illegal and criminal acts such as infringement of citizens’ personal information, cross-border online gambling, online telecom fraud, etc. occur from time to time, and problems such as vulgar information, online rumors, and unfair competition often occur. Was criticized by public opinion.
The Internet is not a place outside the law.
Cyberspace has a clear sky and good ecology, which meets people's expectations; cyberspace is smoky and ecologically deteriorating, which harms people’s interests.
Wherever the cyberspace extends, the rule of law should cover wherever it is.
Promote the rule of law in cyberspace governance, clean up the sludge and muddy water on the Internet, and create a clean cyberspace, which is responsible to society as well as to the people.
Starting from this issue, we will focus on cyberspace governance from the perspective of the rule of law, so stay tuned.
In recent years, with the rapid development of Internet technology, traditional crimes have accelerated the transition to non-contact crimes using the Internet as a medium. Internet-related crimes such as telecommunications network fraud, Internet gambling, and infringement of citizens’ personal information have occurred frequently, and other new crimes have been derived. .
The number of cyber-related crimes, the scale of victims, and the harm to society continue to grow.
Public security organs across the country have always maintained a high-pressure situation of cracking down on illegal crimes related to the Internet, and made every effort to manage the online ecological environment.
In 2020, public security organs across the country investigated and handled 6,524 cases of infringement of citizens’ personal information and arrested 13,000 criminal suspects; investigated 1,782 hacking and new technology crimes, and arrested 2,975 criminal suspects; and investigated 10,000 cyber crimes. In the remaining cases, 15,000 criminal suspects were arrested, more than 5.48 million “mobile phone black cards” were seized, more than 220 million online accounts were seized, and more than 18.5 million Internet of Things cards were promptly prevented from flowing into the black market.
The high incidence of new types of cybercrime induces other related crimes
At present, new types of cyber crimes represented by telecommunication network fraud crimes and cross-border gambling are increasing, which seriously endanger the legitimate rights and interests of the people and affect the healthy development of the economy and society.
According to reports, among the current telecom network frauds, four types of crimes such as "killing pigs", loan fraud, credit card fraud, and pretending to be customer service fraud are more prominent.
In 2020, the Kunming Public Security Bureau successfully cracked a case supervised by the Ministry of Public Security.
Last October, Ms. Li met and established a romantic relationship with a strange man Wang on the Internet.
After that, Wang took the opportunity to introduce a small investment program to Ms. Li, and promised high returns.
After tasting the "sweetness" a few times, Ms. Li invested all her savings until the backstage system showed that it was impossible to withdraw cash and Wang was completely lost. Then Ms. Li called the police.
The relevant person in charge of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security introduced that criminals who practice online fraud in the name of love first gain the trust of victims by means of "love" and "friends", and then recommend gambling websites and "investment platforms" to them. Lure the victim to "make a big deal with small" and let him "make a few small pennies" first to taste the "sweetness".
Through the above process, after the victim is convinced, he will be encouraged to add a large amount of investment, and finally transfer his funds to complete the crime.
In recent years, online gambling has begun to show a trend of frequent occurrences, and cross-border gambling is particularly influential and harmful.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Public Security stated that the harm of cross-border online gambling is very serious. First, online gambling is not restricted by national borders, online terminals are more popular, online payment is more convenient, and it is easy to attract a large number of people to participate in gambling; second, it is more difficult to detect and combat online gambling. Large, criminal groups continue to upgrade their technical means to increase camouflage and concealment, and even hire top international security companies to provide security protection, often using dark web, virtual currency and other means to evade investigation and attack.
In February last year, police in the Guangming District of Shenzhen cracked a robbery case.
After the criminal suspect Li was arrested, a major cross-border online gambling criminal activity was exposed behind the case.
Li explained to the police that in 2019, he accidentally downloaded an online game and got caught in a gambling scam.
Police investigation found that this is a live game designed by an overseas gambling website. Players will be induced by the anchor if they are not careful, click to enter the gambling program, and purchase game coins for online gambling through the built-in game link.
Within a few months, Li had lost a total of more than 400,000 yuan. Because of his inability to repay the high debt, he had the idea of looting.
The person in charge of the Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau stated that in this cross-border online gambling illegal and criminal activity, criminals used the popular game live broadcast format in recent years to promote illegal gambling games through "beauty anchors", which greatly increased the concealment of online gambling. Sexuality and difficulty of supervision.
According to the police handling the case, overseas casinos and gambling websites have increased their gambling efforts in my country. Some criminals have committed telecommunications and network fraud. The two types of criminal organizations and personnel have also collided with each other, and even induced other related crimes such as kidnapping, detention, and violent debt collection. , The harm is more prominent.
Implement a full-chain attack to eradicate the soil for illegal production on the Internet
In recent years, cybercriminals have shown a clear trend of organization, with clear internal divisions and close linkages among various links.
When cracking down on cybercrime, the public security organs pay more attention to breaking the chain and breaking the network, and strengthen the entire chain of crackdowns on the personnel chain, capital chain, technology chain, and promotion chain.
Not long ago, the Shanghai police smashed a “naked video chat” blackmail gang and arrested 35 people involved in the case.
According to the police, by digging and expanding existing information, the police quickly found that the crime involved foreign extortion, domestic fan draining, SMS bombing, account unblocking, "accounting water room", money laundering and cash withdrawal, etc. Related criminal gangs in the link.
This is the first time that the Shanghai police have cracked down on online video chat blackmail cases from overseas crimes to domestic "pull fans", account number resolution, and account transfers.
In this case, from the preparation of the crime to the formal action to the transfer of funds after the crime is successful, the criminal organization has established a complete criminal chain composed of various gray-producing gangs.
In June 2020, the Public Security Bureau of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province successfully detected an extremely large cross-border online gambling case.
A cross-border online gambling group that used illegal network links to promote, relied on domestic network agency development to attract domestic gamblers as members, and used third-party payment platforms to recharge and withdraw cash was completely eliminated.
"The case used an inconspicuous link to promote pirated movies, stripped the cocoon, penetrated layer by layer, expanded and dug out a huge online gambling criminal group hidden overseas, and realized the entire chain of personnel, capital, technology, and promotion. Chain detection." said Wan Kai, deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Public Security Department.
"From the perspective of the governance of cybercrime in recent years, phone cards and bank cards are necessary tools for telecommunications network fraud, online gambling, and infringement of citizens’ personal information. Illegal establishment and sale of phone cards and bank cards are telecommunications network fraud cases. An important soil for the continued high incidence." The relevant person in charge of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said that a large number of bank cards and phone cards with "real names" are used by criminals to commit fraud.
In October last year, the State Council’s inter-ministerial joint meeting held a national “Card-breaking” action deployment meeting, demanding severe crackdowns on “two-card” illegal criminal gangs, striving to cut off the “two-card” gray industrial chain, and eradicate the soil for “two-card” illegal crimes.
As of the end of January this year, public security organs across the country have eliminated a total of 9,013 "two-card" criminal gangs.
Linkage and cooperation to strengthen the comprehensive management of cybercrime
“Cybercrime involves more and more complex and hidden issues in the financial chain.” The relevant person in charge of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said that all links in the cybercrime chain are closely integrated and intersected, and the collection methods appear to be cross-product and cross-transaction methods. Use and frequently switch payment QR codes and accounts, mixed use of remote transfers, scan code transfers, fast collection codes and other transaction scenarios to avoid monitoring.
In May 2020, the Zaozhuang police in Shandong uncovered a case of providing financial services to overseas casinos in one fell swoop.
Hou Qinhua, the deputy squadron leader of a squadron of the Network Police Brigade of the Public Security Bureau of Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, introduced that in this case, the “code merchant” uploaded a large number of QR codes to the illegal payment “run point platform”, and the “run point platform” docked multiple gambling The website continuously transfers the massive collection codes uploaded by "code merchants" to online gambling criminal gangs, and provides fund settlement services for gambling websites at home and abroad.
It is very difficult to trace the funds of the whole chain.
The relevant person in charge of the International Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security said that the capital chain is the core link of online gambling and a key link in combating cross-border gambling.
Due to the intensified industrialization and large-scale trend of cross-border gambling, new changes have taken place in the way in which gambling funds go abroad, which has increased the difficulty of cracking down on governance.
For example, criminal gangs use cloud computing, distributed storage, and artificial intelligence to hide the chain of funds.
In response to this, some large companies in the industry have established intelligent risk prevention and control systems through big data, modeling and other methods to accurately crack down on and cut off the capital chain of criminals.
"In the fight against cross-border illegal and criminal activities, some relevant departments have exposed mutual coordination problems. In addition, industry supervision needs to be further strengthened." Relevant experts suggested that the public security organs further cooperate with judicial, industry supervision, financial and other relevant departments. Linkage and cooperation to strengthen the comprehensive management of cross-border gambling and telecommunications network fraud and other cyber crimes.
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